Our point of departure is author Raquel Gutiérrez’s seminal essay “A Concatenation of Sprawls,” which explores the ’90s queer Latine underground in LA as a site of creative liberation on the margins of the raced, heteronormativized city. We propose to explore literatures that reveal the under-, alt-, DIY, and organic communities that gather in clubs, ethnic enclaves, and other diverse subcultures. We bring together a poet (Vickie Vértiz), novelist (Alex Espinoza), and essayist (Raquel Gutiérrez), all of whom have intimate knowledge of the city, to conjure an oft hidden geography.